Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Master Plan
The Brisbane Girls Grammar School Master Plan has been informed by the school’s significant history, its CBD location, and focus on exceptional scholarship. The outcome reinforces the primacy of the heritage listed Main Building and its foundational landscape, with ongoing strategic densification of the east and west flanks around a green heart.
Sir Charles Lilley founded BGGS in 1885 to establish an education for girls equivalent to their male counterparts. Architecturally, it commenced with Main Building starting a formidable teaching and learning culture for girls, with significant ripple effects over 100 years later.
 
Info
Client:
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Location:
Land of Turrbal and Jagera peoples
Spring Hill
Status:
completed
Typology:
Education
Quotes
… m3 has ensured that their experience in, and understanding of, the issues associated with developing complex inner city, multi-storey educational facilities has enabled the School to erect buildings that deliver exceptional functionality equally and yet have vastly different concepts behind them.
Jacinda Euler, Principal
The Master Plan is a 3D puzzle, connecting significant and complex buildings across over 20m of site fall. It is designed in consideration of managed growth and the generational replacement of old/dysfunctional buildings.
Before
After
The school’s faculty-based learning model has resulted in defined precincts, each with their own needs resulting in architectural diversity – a microcosm of the city.
With increased density comes a parallel need for green space. Importantly, the Master Plan delivers both significant additional built area whilst quadrupling on site green space and reinforcing connections into Victoria Park.
With numerous significant buildings now built, this ‘microcosm of the city’ has reached critical mass and will continue to develop strength, interest and variety into the future.